The paper will demonstrate how film and media clips are being used in the CLS Arabic curriculum to provide students with additional contextual frameworks in which to understand and apply their language learning. Since the CLS Arabic programs place an emphasis on the active acquisition of standard and colloquial registers in tandem, the paper will explore how the integration of activities structured around Arabic film and media clips can serve as a vital resource for assessing students' abilities to comprehend these shifting registers and the contexts to which they correspond. Ultimately, the paper will examine how the incorporation of these materials helps students recognize, activate and produce the aforementioned register shifts in a way that demonstrates their understanding of the correlation between register and context.